Example sentences of "it had [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had without doubt been a day to remember and now whenever I look at my LNWR Boilerhouse Private plate , I think of poor unfortunate Fred Grisenthwaite and his tragic demise , and then recall the Railway Hotel bar room and the kind friends I met that night . |
| 2 | Unlike many people since the end of the Second World War , Freud , writing in the late 1920s , remained impressed with the progress made in the use of technology in improving man 's life , although not unaware of the potential it had for destruction . |
| 3 | Even more embarrassingly for the struggling bank , it had to fork out a further $2.4m to end the agreement . |
| 4 | No war is really a wanted war , and Vietnam was no exception , it was an unwanted war , but the US felt obliged to enter into it because of the fear it had of Communism . |
| 5 | There is no spider to be seen it had of course retreated to the darkest corner it could find again . |
| 6 | The poem describes how ‘ even when he was in France ’ — in the context of the poem it is reasonable to presume the front line trenches — ‘ the sun still woke him as it had at home ’ . |
| 7 | It wasted what money it had on drinking and it spoke with rough accents . |
| 8 | T his new economic process , assisted by an increasing effective demand , was to have the same impact on feudal manufacturing structures as it had in agriculture — it destroyed the old order of things . |
| 9 | It had been bloodied and battered by the impact of the car but , curiously , its handlebar moustache looked as trim and correct in death as it had in life . |
| 10 | While this latter disqualification had not prevented the marriage of the Duke d'Orléans , son of Louis-Philippe , with Helen of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , it had in practice proved to be inconvenient , as the duchess did not change her faith and had been accused of pushing ‘ the Protestant interest ’ . |
| 11 | In each case it had in effect been ruled that Gen Robertson 's order of 14 May would apply , and that 5 Corps could continue with arrangements already entered into hand over both Cossacks and Yugoslavs but only in each case , so lob as force did not have to be used . |
| 12 | When they arrived at the college , it seemed even more forbidding than it had in daylight , and as she walked from the car towards the entrance , Loretta felt as though she were about to cross a threshold in time as well as space . |
| 13 | The house was destroyed in World War II , and the Roselli assumed lost , though it had in fact been transferred to Switzerland . |
| 14 | Decio where the courts ruled that a corporation could not recover unless it first proved that it had in fact been injured by the insider 's illicit trading . |
| 15 | It had in fact gone out minutes before but she had n't noticed . |
| 16 | He pointed out , however , that on one definition it had in fact arrived ; but the figures concerned were distorted by developments in North Sea oil . |
| 17 | It had marked a crucial phase in their love — it had in fact signalled his recognition that they were in love . |
| 18 | The European Court has in fact held that the internal competence may be exercised at the same time as the external competence so that the Community acquired the power to negotiate an international agreement before it had in fact exercised its internal powers , and this theory had in fact been taken further in the fisheries sector in the judgment in the Kramer cases . |
| 19 | It had in fact been an early aim of Barthes 's to make structuralist discourse ‘ homogeneous with its object ’ ( literature ) . |
| 20 | Poland has stopped building the only atomic plant it had in mind . |
| 21 | Israel began to integrate elements of the military government into its own civil ministries , proving that the kind of autonomy it had in mind implied less rather than more Palestinian control over their affairs . |
| 22 | Sausalito , California-based Autodesk Inc says it is committed to diversifying its revenue stream , but did n't say what it had in mind . |
| 23 | The reason , I believe , is that it had in mind the defeat inflicted on the previous Conservative government over the Jonathan Aitken trial to do with Biafra . |
| 24 | you could tie it , it had like pearl , ribbon that you had to tie the book to , to close it , there were some really nice ones were n't there ? |
| 25 | I put it on the arm on the chair , I was trying to be clever and I sat down and it had like material there and I caught the material and I just sort , all fell down here , it 's a lovely smell . |